{"product_id":"modernism-9781405108546","title":"Modernism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis short introduction to Modernism analyses the movement from the perspective of English and American literature. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a critical overview of some of the central texts of literary Modernism.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers both established works and those that have only recently come to critical attention.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes detailed discussion of major authors, including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens and H.D.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘David Ayers provides the reader with a series of interlacing readings – all of them original and provocative – of some major texts of Anglo-American modernism. Ayers’s central theme is the relation of the linguistic to the social in all its complex “modernist” manifestations. The theories of Benjamin and Adorno, as well as of Derrida, provide an important base for understanding the great poetries and fictions of the period. But \u003ci\u003eModernism\u003c\/i\u003e is first and foremost a book of close and acute readings of specific poems and novels – a book at once richly textured and yet also enjoyable to read.’ \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarjorie Perloff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. H. D., Ezra Pound and Imagism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. T. S. Eliot and Modernist Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 .‘The Waste Land’, Nancy Cunard and Mina Loy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Wallace Stevens and Romantic Legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Wyndham Lewis: Genius and Art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. James Joyce: Ulysses and Love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. D. H. Lawrence: Jazz and Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Virginia Woolf: Art and Class.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. The Modernity of Adorno and Benjamin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Poststructuralist Inflection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407843696983,"sku":"9781405108546","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405108546.jpg?v=1730500714","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernism-9781405108546","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}